This was understandable. He and his teammates might have had time for more were it not for apparent plane trouble that stranded the team in Arizona, turning an early afternoon arrival home into an exhausted mid-evening landing for the charter.

An arrival at approximately 7:41 p.m. CT represented about a six-hour delay from the original plans, and that left everyone to enjoy -- sort of -- some other hockey games in the desert.

"Saw two hockey games, and I get to see the third one when I get home," Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. "Just gotta roll with it. over the course of a year or a couple years you're going to run into these kinds of things. They can happen. You just deal with it."

It wasn't exactly a desired bonding session, but that's what it became, marooned a day before the team attempts to extend its season in Game 6 on Monday, trailing the Coyotes 3-2 in the series.

"I don’t know what happened," defenseman Brent Seabrook said. "The guys were all upbeat, hanging out downstairs, having lunch together. It's not a bad thing. It's good to be around the guys this time of year.

"Things come up. We've got a lot of guys that have played for a lot of years in the NHL. I'm sure it's not the first time guys have had this happen and it won't be the last."